Author Archives: John Jackson

John Jackson is a documentation engineer at Cask, responsible for writing and designing documentation and creating the documentation build system. Prior to Cask, he worked as a graphic designer and documentation engineer, the latter most notably at WebLogic.

Before every CDAP release, we at Cask conduct an internal hackathon to use CDAP and work on interesting features. A few Cask engineers got together and, wanting to open up the capabilities of Cask Hydrator beyond Java developers, decided to build a transformation that uses user-written Python. Beginning with CDAP release 3.2, the CDAP UI … Read more